Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1887-08-13

when go out of this world the Lord
will provide for thcn.n Go to Black
wells Island, go through all the poorhouses
of the country, and will show you how
often God provides for tho neglected children
OF neGlcctful parents That is. he provides
for them through public charity. As for
myself, would rather have the Lorlprovide
for my family in n private home. and through
my own industry, and paternal md coli]ugai
fnithfulness But says some man: II mean
In the next ten or twenty years to make a
great fortune, antl so shall leave my family,
when 60 out of this world, very comfort
able.n How duyou know you arc going to
i've ten or twenty yenrs2 II we could look
I'D tho highway of the future, We would SEQ it
crossed by pneniuonius, and pleurisies, and
consumptions, and colliding rail trains, and
runaway horses, and breaking bridges, and
funeral professions. Are you so certain you
are going to live ton or twenty years. you can
warrant your household any confortafter you
go away from them? Beside that, the vast
majority of mon die poorl Two only out OF
hundred < succeed in business e Are u
you very certain you are; going
to be one OF the two2 Rich one
day, poor tho next. A mnn in New York
got s2,O0O000, md the money turned his
brain and lie died IN lunatic asylum. Ali
his property was left with the business firm,
and they swanped it,; ard then the family OF
the Insane man were left without dollar. III
eighteen months tho prosperity, the insanity,
the insolvency, ands the complete domestic
ruin Beside that, there aro men who die
solvent who are insolvent before they get
under tho ground, or before their estate Is
settled M. How soDi The auctioneer's niallet
can knock the life out Of mn estate. man
thinks the property Is worth 600; under
forced sale it brings $1,000. The business
niun takes advantage Of the crisis and nc
compels the widow OF his deceased part
ner to sell out to him Mt -ruinous
price, or lose ALL The stock was sup
posed to be very valuable. but it has
been so "watercd'' that when the executor
tries to sell it he is laughed out Of Wall street,
or the administrator is ordered by the surro-
gate to wind up tho whole affair. The estate
was supposed arstlle mans Heath to DO worth
sGO. 600; but after the indebtedness had been
met, and the bills of the doctor and the I'M
dertalser, and the tombstone cutter have been
paid, there is nothing left. Tint means the
children arc to como homo from school ana
60 TO work That means tho complete hard
ship of the wife, turned out with nothing but
needle to fight the great battle OF the world
Teur down tho lamhrequins, close the piano,
rip up the Administer, sell out the wardrobe,
and let the mother take child i'll each hand
and trulgc out into the desert of tho world.
A life insurance would have hindered all
that.
But, says some one. " mn man of small
means, and can't afford to pay the premi-
up.r That is sometimes lawful and gen
uro excuse, anu there is no answer tn it; but
IN nine cases out of ten when man says thnt
no smokes up in cigars, and drinks down in
wine, and cxpcilds in lHxuries enough money
TO hive Daid the premium on life insurance
policy which would have kept his family from
beccnrv Wien lie is dead. A man ought to
put himself down OIL the strictest economy
until lie can meet this Christian necessity.
You have no right to the luNuries OF life ui-
iii YOU have ma,lo such provision. admire
what was said by Rev DIR. Suthrie, the great
Scottish preacher. A few yenis before his
death no stood in public meeting and do
clarcd, @When came to Edinburgh the peo-
pie sometimes laughed at my bue-stockings
md at my cotton umbrella, and they said l
looked like common plownan, and they de-
rided me because Plived i'll house for which
paid RS5 rent q year, nild .oftentimes |
walked when would have been very glad to
have a cab; but, gentlemen, did all that be-
cause wanted to pay the premium OH life
Insurance that would keep my family conf
Portable if should die" That take to be
the right expression OF al honest, intelli-
gent, Christian man.
The utter indifference of many people on
this important subject accounts for much OF
the crime and the pnupersm OF the day
Who arc these children sweeping the cross
ings with broken broom mud begging OF you
q penny rs you go by? Who are these lost
souls gliding under the gaslight, in thin
shawls! All. they are the victims OF want;
IN many of the cases the forecast Of parents
md grandparents might have prohibited it,
God only knows how they struggled to do
right. They prayed until the tears froze on
their cheeks they sewed on tho sack until the
breaking of the day; but they could not get
enough money to pay the rent; they
could not get enough money to de-
Gently clothe themselves; and one day
in that wretched home the angel Of
purity and the angel Of crime fought
a great fight between the empty bread tray
and tho fireless hearth, and the blackwinsed
angel sIriellcd: "Aha! Ihave won tile day"
SAYS some man: II believe what you say;
it is right and Christian, and mean some
time to attend to this matter My friend,
YOU arc going to lose the comfort OF your
household i'll the same way the sinner loses
heaven, by procrastination. sec oil
around me the destitute and suffering families
OF parents who meant some day to attend
to this Christian duty. During the process
Of adjournment the man gets his feet wet,
then comes a chill and delirium and the
doleful shake of the doctors heaa, and the
obseouies. If there be anything moro pitiabie
than woman delicately brought up and on
her marriage day by an indulgent father
riyen to q man to whom she is the chief Joy
and pride of life until the moment Of his death,
and then that same woman going out with
helpless children ut her back 10 struggle for
bread in a world where brawny muscle and
rugged soul are necessary say, il there be
ANYTHING more pitinble than that, do not
know what it is And yet there are good
women who are Indifferent in regard to their
husbands duty in this respect; and there are
those positively hostile, as though life
insurance subjected man to some
fatality. There is IN Brooklyn today
a very poor woman keeping small candy
shop, who vehcmontly opposed the insurance
Of her husbands life, and when application
had been made for policy Of $4,000 sue
frustrated it. She would never have doc
ument in tho house that implied it was pos
sible for her husband ever to die. One day, in
quick revolution of machinery, his life was
instantly dashed out What is the sequeli
She is, with annoying tug, making the half
of a miserable living. Hertwo children have
been taken away from her in order that they
may be clothed and schooled, aud Ter life Is
to be prolonged hardship. O. man, before